Poco F5 series is going to be the latest and greatest smartphone lineup from the Xiaomi sub-brand. It will include the Poco F5 and Poco F5 Pro, with the Pro model reportedly not slated to launch in the Indian market. The vanilla model’s launch in India has been teased by the company, but there’s no word on the Pro version yet. It is expected to be a rebranded Redmi K60 series phone but a recent Geekbench listing points to a controversial Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC under its hood.
Poco F5 Pro runs Geekbench with SD 8 Gen 1
Poco F5 Pro should be announced pretty soon but ahead of the release, it has appeared on the Geekbench website with the model number 23013PC75G. Notably, the handset features an octa-core processor with its motherboard codenamed Taro. We know that Taro is the aging Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor.
This is contradictory to previous reports that claimed the Poco F5 Pro will be a rebadged Redmi K60 with a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. The handset has been listed on Geekbench with 12GB of RAM and an Adreno 730 GPU. It managed to score 1302 and 4080 points in the single-core and multi-core tests.
Let’s get this out of the way— Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is pretty powerful, but it has a bit of a downside. It tends to run hot and drain the battery quicker than you’d like. The chip was developed by Samsung and Qualcomm using Samsung’s 4nm process, but apparently, Qualcomm wasn’t happy with how Samsung was manufacturing the chips. So much so that it switched to TSMC and came out with a new and improved version called the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 around mid-year.
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